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In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food


John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY